Title:Legal Validity: An Inferential AnalysisAuthor(s):SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2007Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI LAW; 2007/24Abstract:I will argue that the concept of (valid) law is a normative notion, irreducible to any factual description.
Its conceptual function is that of relating certain (alternative sets of) properties a norm may possess to ...

Title:Source Norms and Self-Regulated InstitutionsAuthor(s):RUBINO, Rossella; SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2007Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI LAW; 2007/35Abstract:In this paper we shall focus on an important class of constitutive norms, which we shall call source-norms, namely those norms establishing what norms, on basis of what properties, validly belong to a normative system. ...